Electronic Trading Contracts in London

Electronic Trading (eTrading)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Electronic Trading skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Electronic Trading over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 94 163
Rank change year-on-year -93 +69 +11
Contract jobs citing Electronic Trading 227 729 713
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.27% 2.70% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 2.96% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 638 632
10th Percentile £615 £550 £564
25th Percentile £725 £625 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £875 £863 £838
90th Percentile £1,039 £950 £875
England median daily rate £800 £750 £750
% change year-on-year +6.67% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £64.25 -
England median hourly rate - £64.25 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Electronic Trading is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,787 24,631 35,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.49% 91.12% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,315 17,709 26,172
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 278 427
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.59 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £38.13 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.25% +5.90% +10.87%
75th Percentile £46.86 £62.64 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.30 £76.78 £67.75
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

Electronic Trading
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Electronic Trading as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Electronic Trading in London

Electronic Trading
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Electronic Trading in London.

Daily rate trend for Electronic Trading in London

Electronic Trading
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Electronic Trading in London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Electronic Trading in London

Electronic Trading
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Electronic Trading in London.

Hourly rate trend for Electronic Trading in London

Electronic Trading
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Electronic Trading within the London region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -66 13 £775 +3.33% 2
East London - 2 £850 -
Electronic Trading
England

Electronic Trading
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (5.29%) Confluence
2 6 (2.64%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.64%) SAS
3 2 (0.88%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.44%) Apache
Applications
1 13 (5.73%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (5.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 13 (5.73%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (6.17%) ION MarketView
2 2 (0.88%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.88%) ION Anvil
2 2 (0.88%) RMDS
3 1 (0.44%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 25 (11.01%) npm
2 10 (4.41%) Azure
3 4 (1.76%) AWS
3 4 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (1.32%) Yarn
5 2 (0.88%) Azure App Service
5 2 (0.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (0.88%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (0.44%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.05%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.44%) Firewall
2 1 (0.44%) Multicast
2 1 (0.44%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (16.74%) KDB
2 23 (10.13%) Relational Database
3 16 (7.05%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.08%) Kdb+
5 5 (2.20%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.76%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.32%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.44%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 53 (23.35%) JIRA
2 36 (15.86%) TeamCity
3 25 (11.01%) Git
3 25 (11.01%) webpack
4 16 (7.05%) Moq
5 14 (6.17%) Cucumber
6 12 (5.29%) NUnit
7 9 (3.96%) Cypress.io
8 7 (3.08%) git-flow
9 6 (2.64%) SpecFlow
10 4 (1.76%) Visual Studio
11 3 (1.32%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.88%) GitLab
12 2 (0.88%) Gradle
12 2 (0.88%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.88%) Jenkins
12 2 (0.88%) JUnit
12 2 (0.88%) Mockito
General
1 122 (53.74%) Front Office
2 84 (37.00%) Finance
3 74 (32.60%) Banking
4 72 (31.72%) Social Skills
5 65 (28.63%) Analytical Skills
6 53 (23.35%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.64%) Marketing
8 2 (0.88%) French Language
9 1 (0.44%) Back Office
9 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.44%) Legal
9 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 148 (65.20%) Developer
2 58 (25.55%) Java Developer
3 46 (20.26%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 43 (18.94%) Senior
5 39 (17.18%) C# Developer
6 32 (14.10%) Senior Developer
7 27 (11.89%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
8 24 (10.57%) React Developer
9 23 (10.13%) Angular Developer
9 23 (10.13%) UI Developer
10 22 (9.69%) Full Stack Developer
11 19 (8.37%) Business Analyst
11 19 (8.37%) Real Time Developer
12 17 (7.49%) Applications Developer
12 17 (7.49%) Full-Stack C# Developer
12 17 (7.49%) Senior Java Developer
12 17 (7.49%) Web Applications Developer
13 16 (7.05%) Analyst
13 16 (7.05%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
14 15 (6.61%) Java Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (30.40%) React
2 63 (27.75%) FIX Protocol
3 30 (13.22%) WebSockets
4 28 (12.33%) AngularJS
5 27 (11.89%) .NET
5 27 (11.89%) RxJS
6 26 (11.45%) REST
7 25 (11.01%) CSS
8 23 (10.13%) Redux
9 19 (8.37%) Middleware
9 19 (8.37%) WPF
10 16 (7.05%) Reactive Extensions
10 16 (7.05%) XML
11 15 (6.61%) .NET Core
12 13 (5.73%) ASP.NET
13 12 (5.29%) ASP.NET Web API
13 12 (5.29%) RabbitMQ
13 12 (5.29%) RESTful
13 12 (5.29%) SignalR
14 10 (4.41%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 90 (39.65%) Fixed Income
2 41 (18.06%) Derivative
3 35 (15.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 16 (7.05%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (6.61%) Equities
6 14 (6.17%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (3.96%) Algorithms
8 9 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (3.52%) Data Structures
10 6 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (2.20%) Wiki
12 4 (1.76%) Interest Rate Derivative
12 4 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.76%) Management Information System
13 3 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
14 2 (0.88%) Clustering
14 2 (0.88%) Credit Derivative
14 2 (0.88%) Data Centre
14 2 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (14.98%) Unix
2 32 (14.10%) Linux
3 7 (3.08%) Windows
4 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (37.89%) Agile
2 56 (24.67%) Low Latency
3 46 (20.26%) Design Patterns
4 42 (18.50%) Algorithmic Trading
4 42 (18.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 38 (16.74%) Continuous Integration
5 38 (16.74%) Multithreading
5 38 (16.74%) Software Engineering
6 34 (14.98%) Test Automation
7 33 (14.54%) Full Stack Development
8 29 (12.78%) TDD
9 27 (11.89%) CI/CD
9 27 (11.89%) Economics
10 26 (11.45%) OO
10 26 (11.45%) SDLC
11 25 (11.01%) Stakeholder Management
12 23 (10.13%) Risk Management
13 22 (9.69%) Web Application Development
14 21 (9.25%) Analytics
14 21 (9.25%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 88 (38.77%) Java
2 72 (31.72%) C#
3 59 (25.99%) SQL
4 58 (25.55%) TypeScript
5 51 (22.47%) JavaScript
6 27 (11.89%) Python
7 6 (2.64%) C++
8 5 (2.20%) Perl
9 3 (1.32%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.88%) Bash
10 2 (0.88%) Bicep
10 2 (0.88%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.88%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (15.86%) Degree
2 11 (4.85%) CCNA
2 11 (4.85%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (4.41%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.85%) QA
2 9 (3.96%) MiFID
3 8 (3.52%) Dodd-Frank
3 8 (3.52%) EMIR
4 6 (2.64%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (6.17%) Docker
2 2 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (4.85%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (0.88%) Ansible
2 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (0.44%) BladeLogic
3 1 (0.44%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 35 (15.42%) ION Trading
2 21 (9.25%) TIBCO
3 18 (7.93%) Bloomberg
4 16 (7.05%) Tradeweb
5 15 (6.61%) MarketAxess
6 11 (4.85%) Cisco
6 11 (4.85%) Solace
7 4 (1.76%) Microsoft
7 4 (1.76%) Murex
8 3 (1.32%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.32%) Google
8 3 (1.32%) Reuters
9 2 (0.88%) Arista
9 2 (0.88%) BT
9 2 (0.88%) HP
9 2 (0.88%) IBM
9 2 (0.88%) Radianz
9 2 (0.88%) Refinitiv
9 2 (0.88%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.88%) Splunk